Uganda: LRA Abducts More, Says Rights Watch - AllAfrica.com

Rodney MuhumuzaKampala

International action is needed to stop the Lord's Resistance Army's new fling of abductions and sexual force and to carry apprehension warrants issued by the International Criminal Court for the group's leaders, Person Rights Watch said yesterday.

The rights guard dog said in its up-to-the-minute statement that the Rebel outfit have since February carried out at least 100 abductions, and perhaps many more, in the Central African Democracy (CAR), the Democratic Democracy of Democratic Republic Of The Congo (DRC), and South Sudan.

Boys are made to move as porters or subjected to military preparation and misses are being used as sexual activity slaves, according to believable information, including written documentation, from foreign perceivers and domestic government in the part obtained by Person Rights Watch, the statement said. The recent maltreatments have got occurred amid a faltering peace procedure between the Republic Of Uganda authorities and the LRA to stop the two decades-long conflict.

LRA leader Chief Joseph Kony failed to look at an April 10 meeting to subscribe a concluding peace agreement. Kony and other LRA leadership are charged by the Interstate Commerce Commission for warfare law-breakings and law-breakings against humanity.

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"Kony and the LRA took advantage of the external respiration room given to them and look to be terrorising civilians yet again," said Richard Dicker, international justness manager at Person Rights Watch.

"Concerned authorities and United Nations functionaries cannot sit down by while the LRA travels on a criminal rampage, committing atrocious maltreatments against children and other people."

Efforts, unsuccessful so far, have got been underway by those stopping point to the peace negotiation to pass on directly with Kony to resuscitate the talks.